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Apple and U.s. Bitterly Turn Up Volume in Iphone Privacy Fight
The Obama administration argued on Thursday that "no single corporation"—even one as successful as Apple—should be allowed to flout the rule of law by refusingF...
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Welcome to the Crispr Zoo
Timothy Doran's 11-year-old daughter is allergic to eggs. And like about 2% of children worldwide who share the condition, she is unable to receive many routine...
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System Loads Web Pages 34 Percent Faster By Fetching Files More Effectively
There are few things more frustrating than a slow-loading Web page.
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The .s. Government Launches a $100-Million 'apollo Project of the Brain'
Three decades ago, the U.S. government launched the Human Genome Project, a 13-year endeavor to sequence and map all the genes of the human species.
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Nasa Targets May 2018 Launch of Mars Insight Mission
NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission to study the deep interior of Mars is targeting a new launch...
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Biometrics Are Coming, Along With Serious Security Concerns
You're buying a pair of jeans. At the register, instead of reaching for your wallet or phone, you pull back your hair.
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At Supreme Court, Debate Over Phone Privacy Has A Long History
Underlying the debate over Apple's refusal to help the FBI unlock the iPhone of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook is the idea that cellphones hold the most...
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China Is Building a Big Data Platform For 'precrime'
It's "precrime" meets "thoughtcrime."
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Dawn's First Year at Ceres: A Mountain Emerges
One year ago, on March 6, 2015, NASA's Dawn spacecraft slid gently into orbit around Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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U.s. Military Spending Millions to Make Cyborgs a Reality
The U.S. military is spending millions on an advanced implant that would allow a human brain to communicate directly with computers.
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A Better 3D Camera With Clear, Graphene Light Detectors
A University of Michigan team is developing a three-dimensional camera that should be smaller than current models while supporting higher resolutions.
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Bad Vibrations: ci Researchers Find Security Breach in 3D Printing Process
Researchers have discovered a significant risk for the three-dimensional printing process, in that the machines emit acoustic signals that contain a lot of information...
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Crispr: Gene Editing Is Just the Beginning
Whenever a paper about CRISPR–Cas9 hits the press, the staff at Addgene quickly find out.
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Taking Baby Steps Toward Software That Reasons Like Humans
Richard Socher appeared nervous as he waited for his artificial intelligence program to answer a simple question: "Is the tennis player wearing a cap?"
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Versatile Instrument to Scout for Kuiper Belt Objects
At the Palomar Observatory near San Diego, astronomers are busy tinkering with a high-tech instrument that could discover a variety of objects both far from Earth...
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Is Digital Privacy Becoming a Partisan Issue?
In a Congress where lawmakers have trouble performing even the most basic functions of the legislative branch—funding the government or approving judicial nominees...
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Light-Up Skin Stretches Boundaries of Robotics
Cornell ChronicleCornell University researchers have developed electroluminescent "skin," which stretches to more than six times its original size while still emitting...
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'bending Current' Opens Up the Way For a New Type of Magnetic Memory
Eindhoven University of Technology researchers say they have solved the energy issue of magnetic random-access memory by using a "bending current."
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Humanoid Robots Can't Outsource Their Brains to the Cloud Due to Network Latency
Osaka University roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro explains why offloading a humanoid robot's intelligence to a data center or a cloud computer is impractical.
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